Gulf Oil Slick

Gayla · 07-10-2010, 03:05 AM

I heard something on the news on the radio on my way home tonight about potential containment by Monday. All I've been able to find about it is -

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/09/gul...ex.html?hpt=T1

Has anyone else heard anything about this?

MsDemeanor · 07-10-2010, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by gayla

I heard something on the news on the radio on my way home tonight about potential containment by Monday. All I've been able to find about it is -

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/09/gul...ex.html?hpt=T1

Has anyone else heard anything about this?

MSNBC has been reporting all week that the cap is being removed and replaced by a better one this weekend. Guess I kinda assumed that all of the media had been reporting the story all week. BTW, CNN is doing a story on it right now.....

Selenay, thanks for the answers and your continued hard work researching the numbers

AtLast · 07-10-2010, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by gayla

I heard something on the news on the radio on my way home tonight about potential containment by Monday. All I've been able to find about it is -

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/09/gul...ex.html?hpt=T1

Has anyone else heard anything about this?

Just pretty much the same. Oh, and possibly an additional tanker at the top for more oil collection with an additional pipe bring oil up to surface. Hummm.. don't know if this is one of the newly re-configured kind of tankers???

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Originally Posted by MsDemeanor

MSNBC has been reporting all week that the cap is being removed and replaced by a better one this weekend. Guess I kinda assumed that all of the media had been reporting the story all week. BTW, CNN is doing a story on it right now.....

Selenay, thanks for the answers and your continued hard work researching the numbers

Yes, Thank you Seleny!

Yes, I want to be hopeful about this diffferent cap. Ugh, just when I am, a report comes along with info about everthing that could go wrong that might cause more oil (other than when the old cap is off and the new being seated) to spew. Or, things/pipes, etc. under everything exploding more and possibly making the relief wells non-functional when completed.

Touch and go....

Selenay · 07-10-2010, 05:24 PM

This is the other thing I meant to post, but got sidetracked with.

Does it change your opinion to know that our biggest supplier is actually Canada?

>Source<

Toughy · 07-10-2010, 05:50 PM

I think one of the problems with numbers is all the different measurements.........

British tonnes
US tons
gallons
barrels

I do believe it's truth that the permanent solution to the gushing lives in the relief well (s).

I wish I could remember where I heard or read the following and will do some searching around maybe later:

There are something like 2000 abandoned wells in the Gulf that have been capped and never looked at for years and some of them decades. Talk about accidents just waiting to happen.

Apparently all the oil companies are continually spraying toxic shit dispersant at every active well head, because they all leak a little bit of oil all the time. From what I know about drilling oil on land, that is probably a true statement that all wellheads leak a little. They spray the dispersant so the leaked oil stays in the water column and doesn't get to the surface. Remember when some idiot said that oil tar balls wash up on the beaches fairly regularly, so just maybe the tar balls are not from the Deep Horizon?

AtLast · 07-10-2010, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Toughy

I think one of the problems with numbers is all the different measurements.........

British tonnes
US tons
gallons
barrels

I do believe it's truth that the permanent solution to the gushing lives in the relief well (s).

I wish I could remember where I heard or read the following and will do some searching around maybe later:

There are something like 2000 abandoned wells in the Gulf that have been capped and never looked at for years and some of them decades. Talk about accidents just waiting to happen.

Apparently all the oil companies are continually spraying toxic shit dispersant at every active well head, because they all leak a little bit of oil all the time. From what I know about drilling oil on land, that is probably a true statement that all wellheads leak a little. They spray the dispersant so the leaked oil stays in the water column and doesn't get to the surface. Remember when some idiot said that oil tar balls wash up on the beaches fairly regularly, so just maybe the tar balls are not from the Deep Horizon?

Oh, this is something I think about! One of the more scary things in all this to me. I just don't believe that this disaster will be the last or the largest we deal with. I don't want to believe this, but do not see any movement in a direction of prevention going on that is getting much serious attention or funds. Just a whole lot of anti-tree-hugger type snarls from the usual sources.

http://eater.com/archives/2010/05/25...lf-coast-1.php

One of many links about the research by Philippe Cousteau. Also, I saw some new stuff by him and a woman he researches with today on CNN.

I also heard this (what I bolded in your post above) somewhere... thinking maybe NPR? I'll look too, I usually have NPR or Green Radio on when I am listening to radio. Just seems like I would of heard about this on NPR. Ugh.. but what program!

MsDemeanor · 07-10-2010, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Toughy

There are something like 2000 abandoned wells in the Gulf that have been capped and never looked at for years and some of them decades. Talk about accidents just waiting to happen.

You're off by a decimal point - it's 27,000, according to an Associated Press investigation. I think that Rachel mentioned this on her show recently.

linkyloo

Toughy · 07-10-2010, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by MsDemeanor

You're off by a decimal point - it's 27,000, according to an Associated Press investigation. I think that Rachel mentioned this on her show recently.

linkyloo

I originally thought it was about 20,000 but I just couldn't quite grasp that kind of number.....laughin.....I thought I must have misread or misheard....

thanks for the correction....

The sea bed must be just littered with well heads ...............shaking my head.....

Toughy · 07-11-2010, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by MsDemeanor

You're off by a decimal point - it's 27,000, according to an Associated Press investigation. I think that Rachel mentioned this on her show recently.

linkyloo

Rockin...........take a look at Msdemeanor's link (above) to an AP article.

And I think you misread the Shreveport Times article because here is the link:
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/artic...bandoned-wells

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